Friday, March 21, 2008

Encinitas Taxpayers Association Open Community Forum March 31st

ENCINITAS' ENERGY FUTURE: HOW WOULD THE POWERLINK FIT IN?

Monday, March 31st Forum Starts at 6:30 and Ends at 7:30

At the New City Library Join the ETA and representatives from both SDG&E (a Sempra Energy Utility[1]) and the Utility Consumers Action Network (UCAN[2]) to talk about the Sunrise Powerlink[3]. The forum will help residents understand some of the debate leading to decisions that will be made by the California Public Utility Commission(CPUC[4]) regarding our future energy infrastructure.

Please come to ask questions about the costs to ratepayers and benefits for utility users of the Sunrise Powerlink.

This is the first in a series of Encinitas Taxpayer Association community forums. Through these forums the Encinitas Taxpayer Association hopes to help develop community dialogue on issues that are both complex and important to Encinitas taxpayers and ratepayers.

14 comments:

Let’s have a county wide tax initiative to fund the purchase of coast property to return the coastline to its natural state. It would be less than $5 per person per year. A mere fraction of what each one of you is paying to have our kids die in Iraq to try and lower oil prices.

How did it go? Sorry I couldn't attend. I was disappointed Council voted that the sand "replenishment" was to receive a negative environmental impact declaraton. I think that was at the 3/19/08 Council Meeting. Of course excess sand does affect the tidepools, and the kelp, as well as the quality of the surf, by reducing it!

It passed, unanimously. No one came forward and warned we have plenty of sand. I don't get that we are going to tax more for more sand, treating individuals renting out a room, or a house, for short term rentals, on a seasonal basis, say, and residing in part of the home, just the same as a hotel.

Please, we can vote no on that new tax. It will be on the ballot in June.

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About Leucadia

Leucadia is a funky little beach community located in North San Diego county in southern California. Leucadia is the north section of the city of Encinitas.

English spiritualists settled the small coastal community of Leucadia in 1870, and are reputed to have danced, in diaphanous white robes in the little Roadside Park (Leucadia Blvd and Hwy 101).

The spiritualists are the reason so many of the streets are named after Greek gods and goddesses. Leucadia is Greek for "a sheltered place." Heritage Eucalyptus trees, planted in the 1880s, still grace the highway. When President Roosevelt passed through Leucadia in an open car during the Depression, local children climbed the Eucalyptus trees to wave to him.

Change happens slowly in this nostalgic little California beach town. In lieu of fast food restaurants and franchise chain stores, Leucadia has two miles of Mom 'n Pop businesses, and that's the way everyone likes it. The town war cry is "Keep Leucadia Funky."

Leucadia played an active role in the rebirth of the classic Highway 101 shield, restored in 1997, and was part of the successful 101 Campaign to have Highway 101 declared an historic route.

Leucadia is experiencing growing pains and culture clash in these first decades of the 21st century...